Today, nearly 100 Republicans called on the President not to nominate Susan Rice as Secretary of State, The Hillreported:

In a letter to Obama, the 97 Republicans said the credibility of the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has been gravely wounded by her account of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

“Though Ambassador Rice has been our Representative to the U.N., we believe her misleading statements over the days and weeks following the attack on our embassy in Libya that led to the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans caused irreparable damage to her credibility both at home and around the world,” Republicans wrote in their letter, which was led by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) and sent to Obama Monday.

I strongly suspect Susan Rice is already off the short list because the White House doesn’t need the focus of any of his nominee confirmation hearings to be on Benghazi. But, we are dealing with a brazen administration that thinks (knows) it can get away with anything with impunity, so who knows.

The elephant in the room of course is if Susan Rice has lost credibility at home and around the world, where does that leave the President and his team in the White House, who are the ones who gave her the bogus talking points?

Until Friday, there were two possible explanations for why the White House failed to immediately call the Benghazi attack an act of terrorism. One was incompetence, the other was worse.

Now there is only one, and it is the worse one. Based on the persuasive testimony of ex-CIA boss David Petraeus, it is clear the Obama administration made a deliberate decision to mislead Congress and the American people.

The repeated claim that the attack was spontaneous and grew out of a demonstration against an anti-Islam video — a claim made by the president and secretary of State as they stood next to the bodies of four dead Americans — was a monstrous lie. It was vile and done for the basest of reasons.

Because we now know the truth of what happened — CIA reports were edited to remove the names of al Qaeda groups involved in the attack, Petraeus said under oath — we also know the motive. It was political self-preservation, meaning the president and his team put politics first.

So what are Republicans going to do about the fact that, like his stooge Susan Rice, this President has “lost credibility at home and around the world?”

I can tell you what Democrats are doing about it. Not so stupid and blind that they don’t know the truth, they’re circling the wagons, in full cover-up mode per usual. MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, for one is more than up for the job:

Last I checked, Watergate didn’t have a body count. All of Obama’s ‘gates do.

And via Weasel Zippers, self avowed Communist, Van Jones pretends that the reason conservatives object to him (and his fellow travelers) has something to do with his skin tone, (as opposed to the fact that he’s – you know – a commie):

Hmmmm, gee Hoss – maybe it has more to do with the lying, stonewalling and abject corruption so often seen in left-wing, totalitarian regimes?Of course, he knows better, but the truth is sort of inconvenient, and this constant, toxic race-baiting has been working out so well for them, why stop, now?

“We know that General Petraeus testified that they knew it was a terrorist attack right away,” said Ayotte, “that Al-Qaeda was involved and that that was removed, those references were removed from the talking points apparently provided to Susan Rice, that she testified that she talked about five days after the attack on every major news network. But here is what’s more troubling: It wasn’t just Susan Rice who did that. If you recall, the President went not only on Letterman, Univision, the day after the CBS interview and then 14 days later before the United Nations, he did not call it a terrorist attack, nor did he reference it as connected to Al-Qaeda or an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group. In fact, the only reference he made to Al-Qaeda in that UN speech to the world was that Al-Qaeda had been weakened and Osama Bin Laden was dead. So I think this raises additional questions. It goes beyond Ambassador Rice. First of all, why were the talking points changed? It doesn’t make any sense to me that we were trying to dupe Al-Qaeda. That doesn’t pass the laugh test. But also, why was the President out 14 days later and still fail to go call it a terrorist attack to the world?”

The good news is, Republicans are really determined to get to the bottom of this. There is a there, there, and it’s going to take persistence and tenacity to get to it. Rep Frank Wolf of Virginia appeared on Fox to discuss his call for a Select Committee on the Benghazi Attack:

Guy Benson has a good summery at Townhallof the regime’s errors that led Republicans to the point of calling for a special committee to investigate this kafkaesque scandal:

Rice appeared on all five Sunday morning shows on September 16, five days after the deadly 9/11 attacks. She advanced three core assertions for public consumption:

(1) The the violence had spilled over from “spontaneous” protests over an internet video. (There were no protests outside of the Benghazi consulate leading up to the attack).

(2) The US government “had no information” indicating that the assault was “pre-meditated or preplanned. (There were, in fact, many signs pointing to that conclusion, even before the raid began).

(3) Our security presence at our diplomatic mission in Benghazi was “substantial.” (The fact that the consulate was sacked — and four Americans, including a sitting ambassador, were murdered in the process — is clear evidence that our security measures was unforgivably and demonstrably insubstantial. To try to say otherwise is outright insulting. To say nothing of the various subsequent revelations that Amb. Stevens and his team begged for more security on numerous occasions, but were denied. The State Department actually reduced its American security presence in the country; this, in spite of glaring warning signs that our interests were far from protected.
Obama’s primary defense of Rice was that she simply articulated the talking points she was provided “at the request of the White House:”

“As I said before, she made an appearance at the request of the White House in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her,” Obama said at the press conference, defending the statements the ambassador to the U.N. made regarding the Benghazi attack.

And it was completely, purposefully wrong. The Regime knowingly lied to the American people in order to protect the naked emperor from (I can’t even say “bad press” because that would entail an impartial media broadcasting the bad news, not trying to protect their Precious from it) the awful truth getting past the media gatekeepers. That’s why it’s a “scandal”, Friedman – ya big dope, ya.

But if you’re a Democrat, or even most Americans, these days – it doesn’t matter if a President lies to your face on a daily basis, as long as the MSM goes along, the ends justify the means. That is the lesson we should all take from this – that is the new normal in ObamAmerica, today.

“Making something out of Nothing” is the cowardice label Obama and Democrats apply to actual events that could eventually damage their party.

Obama and his Cowardly Administration are easily offended by the GOP demanding answers from them concerning the mysterious death of 4 Americans killed in Benghazi.

The death of 4 Americans is a non-ssue to Obama, Hillary, Stephanie Cutter, Axelrod and Susan Rice.

The theoretical “Hunch” that Mitt never paid taxes was a far more important and news worthy topic for the Cowardly Obama admnistration than was the brutal death of Diplomat Chris Stevens.

The Obama Administration verbalized more self imagined facts and hunches about Mitt’s Taxes than they had provided about Chris Stevens final 7 hours of life that were viewed and recorded in “real time” by Obama’s Admin.

Susan Rice was sent out on the 16th of Sept. to provide statements on 5 different Sunday Talk Shows about what had occurred on Sept 11th when 4 Americans were brutally murdered.

Susan made arrangements to speak on 5 Sunday Talk Shows with less than 4 days notice and she made herself crystal clear that the 4 Americans were killed by rioters angry about an anti-islam video on YouTube.

It’s a shame the Brutal death of a Diplomat and the “Real Time” video that exists of his death is in no way as important as a “hunch” about what Mitt has paid in Taxes the past 10 years.

Can they EVER overplay the race card? Or will people just continue to buy into it until the trumpets blow and the world ends.
A testament to the stupidity of a large section of America that these baiters aren’t shouted down every time they spout this crud.

The administration put Susan Rice out there on those Sunday shows knowing full well that she was a kool aid consumer who would promote the story they hand fed her. She had no business being out there because she had no direct information surrounding the incident itself.

It was Hillary’s responsibility to make those appearances, those were her people who she was directly responsible for. I believe she refused to do it, thus we ended up with Rice. She only repeated the “political talking points”, that I suspect that either Brennan, Donilon or Jarrett [or combination] put together for public consumption. It has the whiff of Chicago all over it. Unfortunately for Rice she has become the pinata for the Republicans who smell blood. I’m the last one who would like to see her become Secretary of State, but for other reasons. She’s a far left wing radical, just like the boss.

I want to know who took a CIA “threat assessment” and turned it into “talking points” for political reasons, that wasn’t Rice.

sending Rice out to lie on the Sunday circuit almost smacks of a loyalty test. How big will this one lie for us? Maybe we can use her for something later on. I don’t know if anyone remembers, but shortly before Sebelius was named to HHS she came out with a statement as Gov of KS that she didn’t think the state would be sending out it’s tax refunds due to budget issues. I remember it vividly, as we hadn’t filed yet, and it took it for the direct and personal threat that it was — to unlawfully retain money seized from us. Next thing you know she’s HHS sec’y.

Deb, if you think the dims circled the wagons around the “squirter in chief” on Impeachment the last time, just watch what happens with this guy. There is no way the repubics have the stones to take this on, especially since most of them are running trying to take cover under the closest sombrero over the election results. There is no way in hell the repubics are going to take on and fight a two front war with minorities. Without at least some dims jumping ship, it would be a futile attempt at best. I don’t see anything substantive coming out of the entire mess or anybody being held accountable.